You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that… — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not a gymnastic hour and a half, or at the lowest level, a daily drudgery, but a devotion that… — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
There's no thinking involved in my choreography... I don't work through images or ideas. I work through the body... If the dancer dances, which… — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Dance is an art in space and time. The object of the dancer is to obliterate that.” — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
I think anything can feed you, depending on the way you look at it or listen to it. — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
“You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on… — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
My dance classes were open to anybody, my only stipulation was that they had to come to the class every day. — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
You can get fixed ideas, and it can get restrictive. So, I try to put myself in a precarious position. — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing. — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
Fortunately, dance has been what's interested me all my life. So whether I am faced with incapacities or not, it still absorbs me. — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
Movement is expressive. I've never denied that. I don't think there's such a thing as abstract dance. — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
You do not separate the human being from the actions he does or the actions which surround him, but you see what it is… — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
Very often, you did something slow with your arm, for example, and something rapid with your feet - but the arm had to do… — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
